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Kim Hye-soo "I didn't watch the original on purpose"

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Kim Tae-hee the 9th Jang Hee-bin.

Lee Seung-gi thinks of a unique male gumiho

A new battle is staring between the three main broadcasting companies.

KBS 2TV "The Queen of Office", MBC "Gu Family Book" and SBS "Jang Ok-jung, Living in Love" are the three and they share the common factor of having to jump over the past. "The Queen of Office" starts from the 'past' of being an 'original'. It is a remake of the Japanese NTV "Dignity of Dispatch" and is a romance drama based around Miss Kim who is a multi tasker.

Kim Hye-soo doesn't hide the fact that she's pressured by the original piece. She said, "I only watched the first episode of it not wanting to imitate it. I think my feelings of it are important. I am going to act it out exactly the way I saw it in the script".

"Jang Ok-jung, Living in Love" Kim Tae-hee is the 9th Jang Hee-bin and is set to be compared to the previous Jang Hee-bins who are Kim Ji-mi, Nam Jeong-im, Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Mi-sook, Jeon In-hwa, Jeong Seong-kyeong, Kim Hye-soo and Lee So-yeon. How she differentiates herself from her seniors is the question.

If Jang Hee-bin has been drawn as the century's femme fatale, Kim Tae-hee is going to be more rational. She said once that she will create the character to be a woman who is in love with a man and boldly creating her way of life.

Lee Seung-gi has to deal the past of himself. "Gu Family Book" is about a gumiho man struggling to be a human. Lee Seung-gi takes on the role of Choi Kang-chi. Although different in characters, he has to make it seem different from the SBS drama, "My Girlfriend is a Gumiho" which he starred in with Shin Min-a before.

A spokesperson said, "My Girlfriend is a Gumiho" was a modern drama and "Gu Family Book" is a historical martial arts drama so they are different in setting and genre".

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